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Painting, Directing John Brown to the Free State CampAuthor:Reader, Samuel JamesDate: August 3, 1856

Painting of John Brown being led to a Free State camp by Samuel Reader. John Brown disguised himself as a surveyor to monitor the activites of proslavery forces in the Kansas Territory. Here, the artist depicts himself leading Brown to a camp on Pony Creek in Brown County on August 3, 1856.